Tri-boot of OSX, Vista, WinXP on Toshiba M305 Laptop

[zeek987]

Hey, I am just curious if this is safe? unusual? less efficient?

 

I recently got toshiba m305 laptop with a 250gb hdd. It had Vista home premium 32 bit installed already. I then put windows xp pro 32 bit on the computer. Finally, I put Kalyway 10.5.2 on to the computer. Of course I had to repair disk permission and boot records, but It all works fine.

 

The computer boots to a vista boot manager with all three os's as options. However, selecting OSX opens the Darwin bootloader, which then requires selection of the OSX partition for it to then boot OSX.

 

The only problem I have noticed is that OSX gives a strange "problems booting" error, "pausing for 5 seconds", and then it boots just fine, seemingly.

 

Everything works perfectly in Vista and XP. OSX is not able to get my toshiba m305's Intel 3945 wireless to work though, nor does the Marvell Lan. That is the only flaw I have noticed. Luckily, I had a Dlink usb wireless 6 stick laying around and it works fine, but does stick out of the side of my laptop. (oh, well, also, the default install doesn't support the built in webcam, but I don't use it anyhow).

 

So does this pose any dangers to my data? or slow my computer down in some way? Or is it all just fine the way it is? Any one else done this on a a single hdd?